Centre leapfrogs Uttarakhand govt on roads construction

The Central Government will directly spend about Rs.12,000 crore to rebuild roads on Char Dham and Hemkund Saheb pilgrim routes in Uttarakhand which were damaged during the 2013 floods, adversely affecting the tourism business in the state, a union government official said. The project will be completed in the next four years. It will include construction of new roads, several fresh alignments at landslide-prone zones, three tunnels, several bridges, Union Ministry of Road Transport and National Highways Project Director PK Maurya said.